[Info-vax] Safer programming languages (and walking :-) ), was: Re: 8-bit characters

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/14/2021 5:05 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-11-14, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> One really doesn't need a language or compiler to get in the way of what needs
>> to be done.
> 
> There is a move towards more safe languages for systems programming.
> 
> The current fashion, Rust, has horrible syntax, and I have no confidence
> that code written in it today will still compile on the Rust compilers
> of 5 to 10 years from now, but its use is being driven by the desire
> for using safer languages.
> 
> When Rust falls out of fashion, it would be nice if whatever follows
> Rust would address both of those problems.

Rust seems to be getting some traction.

With Mozilla, Microsoft and Linux kernel adding Rust code and
with Google and Amazon also backing it, then it may be difficult
to fall out of fashion.

Arne